#temper

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. ↗

— Louis XIV

#i #king #lose #should #temper

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#forgiveness #function #heart #regardless #temperature

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. ↗

— Tacitus

#due #generosity #leads #moderation #ruin

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#i #me #temper

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. ↗

— Washington Irving

#constant #edged #grows #keener #never

Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#temper #thinking #anger

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#almost #amazing #balances #been #checks

Lovemaking is more than sex, it's a connecting of hearts, meeting of minds, & touching of souls." ~ Dr. Scott Hensley ↗

— Pamela S. Thibodeaux

#contemporary-christian-fiction #contemporary-western-romance #cowboy-romance #inspirational-with-an-edge #pamela-s-thibodeaux

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease. How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you? He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#illness #shakespeare #writers #intelligence

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#intelligible #means #needed #painter #public